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...violence seems likely to mount: Colombia's drug kings have sworn to kill five Americans for every compatriot extradited to the U.S. They have even placed a $300,000 bounty on the heads of U.S. narcotics agents, dead or alive. "These are very tough and mean men," says a Panama City banker familiar with the drug trade. "If you attack their livelihood, they'll fight you until the death...
With that statement, McChristian, who was Westmoreland's chief of intelligence for two years, contradicted sworn testimony by the former commander of U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam. Earlier in the trial Westmoreland declared that he had sought an explanation from McChristian of how he had calculated the troop estimates, and had then disputed inclusion of civilians because, Westmoreland felt, they had a limited impact in combat. McChristian said he never learned what happened to his report, but added, "I think that for a military man to withhold a report based on political implications would be improper...
Prior to Byrdy's appearance, General Platek gave testimony that contradicted sworn statements by the very men that he had assigned to investigate the case. He claimed, for example, that because he was drowsy from the effect of sleeping pills, he had failed to realize the significance of the fact that a ministry car had been spotted in the city of Bydgoszcz the night of the priest's death. Platek also insisted that the date on a travel permit that Piotrowski had used the night Popieluszko was killed had been altered before it was turned over as evidence...
...Monday, some 140,000 people on the scene and millions in front of television sets were expected to watch Reagan be sworn in for the second time and then deliver his Inaugural Address at a for- mal convocation at the West Front of the Capitol. Drafts of the speech, largely written by the President himself, were long on uplifting themes and short on specific proposals. Reagan called for an "American renewal" that frees up the nation's entrepreneurial spirit by shrinking Big Government. In Reagan's by now familiar...
...Constitution mandates that the President be sworn in on the 20th, so a private ceremony will be held on Sunday at the White House, attended only by the First Family, the Vice President and his family, the Cabinet and White House aides. A public ceremony will follow on Monday at the West Front of the Capitol before TV cameras and an anticipated crowd of 140,000. The President will wear a business suit instead of the black club coat and striped trousers he favored in 1981. Mrs. Reagan will be wearing an electric-blue outfit by Adolfo...